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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ns2.mainstreet.net!sloth.swcp.com!haunt.com!ele From: ele@haunt.com (Erik L. Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: QUESTION: hooking a non-wide SCSI tape drive to an Adaptec-2940UW Date: 7 May 1996 21:49:43 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4moghn$q3a@sloth.swcp.com> Reply-To: ele@eece.unm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: casper.haunt.com Summary: Errors on boot up for my tape drive. HELP! Keywords: Adaptec-2940UW, cable, tape drive X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I borrowed a friend's tape drive (a regular SCSI (-2?)) 4mm to do a backup of my hard drive. My machine has an Adaptec 2940 fast-wide card. First I shelled out $90 for a cable to connect my wide SCSI to the 50-pin Centronics connector on the tape drive. The computer does recognize the tape drive as SCSI device #3 before installing BIOS, but on boot up I get: ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:10 ahc0: aic7870 Ultra Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 255 SCBs ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc0:0:0): "Quantum XP32150W 81HB" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2050MB (4199760 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:1:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA 3605" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:1:0): CD-ROM cd present.[325252 x 2048 byte records] ahc0:A:3: Warning - message rejected by target: 0xff ...and I get "device not configured" errors when I try to tar to /dev/rst0. So, it recognized the Adaptec board, the hard drive, and the CD-ROM, but then gives me that weird error when it gets to the tape drive. Someone suggested that the board maybe trying to address the tape drive as a fast-wide device. So my questions are: Did I get the wrong cable? Do I need to get a special cable that goes from a wide SCSI to a regular SCSI? Will I be able to use this tape drive or do I have to go out and buy a special fast-wide tape drive? Thanks for any and all suggestions, | ___ Erik L. Ellis ____________ | ___ Staff Research Engineer _____________ | University of New Mexico | Voice: 505/277-3431 FAX: 505/277-1413 | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Albuquerque, NM 87131 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/staff/ele/